Walker County sheriff’s detectives, state troopers and Texas Rangers are investigating the discovery of a man’s body about 100 feet into the woods inside Sam Houston National Park.

Photo: Scott Engle / Montgomery County Police Reporter

Walker County sheriff’s detectives, state troopers and Texas...

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The 911 call came in about 11:20 a.m. Monday and directed authorities to the scene off FM 2929 at Four Notch Road, Montgomery County Police Reporter says in a story on its website.

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The 911 call came in about 11:20 a.m. Monday and directed...

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Sheriff Clint McRae tells Police Reporter the body is that of a young Hispanic male, and investigators are checking leads around the county.

Photo: Scott Engle / Montgomery County Police Reporter

Sheriff Clint McRae tells Police Reporter the body is that of a...

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1. The MS13 gang is known as Mara Salvatrucha. A recent federal indictment describing the gang notes that the name is a combination of Spanish slang terms: “Mara” is a word used in El Salvador for gang. “Salvatrucha” is combination of words, “Salva” an abbreviation for El Salvador and “trucha” which means, heads up.
A Mara Salvatrucha gang member attends a mass celebrated by Archbishop Luigi Pezzuto, Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador, and head army and police chaplain Monsignor Fabio Colindres at a prison in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador, Monday in 2012. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)

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1. The MS13 gang is known as Mara Salvatrucha. A recent federal...

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2. The MS13 gang began in Los Angeles in the 1980s as a way for immigrants from El Salvador to protect themselves from predators in the immigrant community there.
A MS-13 gang member shows his tattoo identifying him as a member of that gang. (FBI)

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2. The MS13 gang began in Los Angeles in the 1980s as a way for...

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3. The MS13 gang consists primarily of people who are from Central America or are descendants of people from Central America. Most members have lineage from El Salvador, but it includes members with family ties to several countries, including Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and others.
Julian Garcia, a former MS13 gang member, had tattoos removed at the "Goodbye Tattoo" clinic in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Since the privately-funded clinic opened in 2000, volunteer workers have removed thousands of tattoos from young people who want to leave gang life behind. File Photo by Luis J. Jimenez

3. The MS13 gang consists primarily of people who are from Central...

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4. While the MS13 gang is mostly tied to El Salvador, it is currently illegal to be a gang member there.
Back in 2009 in Houston, a group of the MS-13 gang members entered a beauty saloon located nearby at 2724 Crossview to , commit an armed robber and rape an employee. ( Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle )

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4. While the MS13 gang is mostly tied to El Salvador, it is...

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5. MS13 gang members once created fear and drew attention with wild, dark tattoos that covered nearly their entire faces. Gang members had since stepped away from such a look in order to avoid being detected by law enforcement. The new generation of gang members are known to have far fewer tattoos, sometimes only some ink inside their lips or somewhere on their bodies that can be covered with clothing
This is a machete used by a MS-13 gang member during the armed robbery of a Houston Beauty Saloon back in 2009. (FBI)

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5. MS13 gang members once created fear and drew attention with...

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6. Members of the MS13 gang who are illegally in the United States are known to use machetes instead of guns, as carrying the long-bladed weapon does not bring the same potential for a criminal charge as carrying a gun. Federal and state laws prohibit undocumented immigrants from having guns.
An MS-13 gang member shows his tattoo identifying him as a member of that gang. He participated in an armed robbery in a beauty saloon located at 2724 Crossview #106, in South West Houston, on January 17, 2009.
Byline: Courtesy of the FBI.

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6. Members of the MS13 gang who are illegally in the United States...

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7. Members of the MS13 are known to display the gang’s colors – blue and white. Those are the same colors as the El Salvador flag.
Members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang at the Ciudad Barrios prison in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador, Aug. 14, 2012. (Tomas Munita/The New York Times)

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7. Members of the MS13 are known to display the gang’s colors –...

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8. MS13 gang members are known to mark their territory with graffiti of the letters MS as well as slogans unique to the gang.
An example of a tattoo of the gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). The Obama administration has labeled a violent Central American street gang as an international criminal organization subject to U.S. government sanctions, the first time this designation was given to such a group. (AP Photo/Michael Johnson, ICE)

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8. MS13 gang members are known to mark their territory with...

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9. MS13 members are known to have three dots in their tattoos for the three destinations they expect to face in life – the hospital, death and jail.
Members of a MS-13 gang who were arrested in January, 29, 2009, used a shotgun to commit robberies. They were charged with aggravated assault against a beauty saloon located at 2724 Crossview. (FBI)

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9. MS13 members are known to have three dots in their tattoos for...

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10. As members of the MS13 gang were deported from the United States to Central America, the gang grew in strength as it began operations from a country known for more corruption
The daughter of Claudia Palma, who fled her native Honduras after suffering at the hands of her MS-13-affiliated boyfriend applied for asylum in Houston.

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10. As members of the MS13 gang were deported from the United...

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11. MS13 gang members pay dues at meetings. The money goes to help members who are in prison as well as support other gang activity.
Members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang build a greenhouse in Ilopango, El Salvador. The greenhouse, funded by the European Union, is one of many new programs that employs active gang members. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Photo: Esteban Felix, Associated Press

11. MS13 gang members pay dues at meetings. The money goes to help...

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12. New male members of MS13 go through an initiation in which they are “jumped in” by being beaten by other gang members as another member counts aloud to 13.
A family in 2014 walks by a wall covered by a symbol from the Mara Salvatrucha gang in Ilopango, El Salvador. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Photo: Esteban Felix, Associated Press

12. New male members of MS13 go through an initiation in which they...

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13. Female members can be “jumped into” the gang by sex acts with the gang’s members instead of being beaten
Two members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang are escorted while being transferred to another prison after a clash between rival gangs at the female prison in San Salvador, El Salvador in 2005. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)

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13. Female members can be “jumped into” the gang by sex acts...

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Two men charged with using bat, machete to kill teen in national forest

Two men from El Salvador were indicted Thursday on murder charges for allegedly striking a Klein Forest High School student with a machete and bat last year, killing him in the Sam Houston National Forest near Huntsville.

A third man, Jose Bonilla-Romero, 17, was also arrested in October in connection with the murder.

Bonilla-Romero was charged with murder in Walker County, and his case is pending.

It is still uncertain if federal charges will be brought against him, because he would probably be charged as a juvenile, said Capt. Tim Whitecotton of the Walker County Sheriff's Office.

The victim and the three suspects were allegedly members of the gang MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha), Whitecotton said. MS-13 has roots in El Salvador.

Someone within the gang allegedly placed a hit on Guevara, Whitecotton said.

Evidence at the crime scene directed investigators to the suspects, Whitecotton said. And a machete that might have been used in the crime has been recovered where one of the suspects was arrested.

A bond hearing has been scheduled for Zamora for Tuesday.

Campos-Lara waived his right to a hearing because there is an immigration detainer for him, said his attorney, Thomas Berg. Even if he had been let out on bond, he would have been held by immigration officials.

He is now in custody of U.S. Marshals.

Because of the federal charges, it is likely that state murder charges against Zamora and Campos-Lara in Walker County will be dropped.